A charming commentator on Digital Spy's Soaps forum classifies me as a "psycho blogger." Well, here's how I classify Fallen Piano:-
And ...
The entertainment industry is one of illusion. As hard as it may be for some people to realise this, Eastenders is just an illusion. It's a bunch of journeymen actors playing people who don't exist. Sometimes, for public relations' necessities, the realm of fantasy is brought into reality, and this is done for a purpose.
What normal people would call lying is done all the time in the world of sports, entertainment and politics. How many times have you heard a football chairman say that a struggling manager has his vote of confidence only to have the man sacked within a few days of repeating this lie?
I'm cynical enough and realistic enough to realise when someone on television is trying to sell me a bill of goods (google that if you don't know what it is), and I can even understand why it's done in this day and age; what never ceases to amaze me is how stupid the general public really is - especially in relation to Eastenders.
With that in mind, they really must be aiming their programmes and their PR at the feet of the lowest common denominator.
Consider this: 2005 was a seminally bad year for Eastenders. Kathleen Hutchison, who started the year as EP, sacked Leslie Grantham and totally ended Dirty Den once and for all by definitely killing him. Several other A-List characters also chose to leave that year - namely Chrissie Watts, Sam Mitchell, the big guns of the year Alfie and Kat and the bigger gun Dennis Rickman. Letitia Dean, who played Sharon, called it a day as well. She was the last to leave and at a time when the soap was being universally slated - even more so or at least as much as it's being slated today.
Dean was the last to leave. She actually left the soap at the end of 2004, when she winged off to the US in a huff, only to return briefly for Grantham's last episode; however, she was convinced to return for the despatch of Chrissie and for the departure of Nigel Harman's Dennis.
When she left the soap finally, on 13th January 2006, it was announced by the show's PR department that Letitia Dean was not leaving Eastenders; in fact, she was "taking a break."
Well, we know now that that break lasted six years. Recently, "taking a break" has become a euphemism, especially under Kirkwood's reign of terror, for "leaving the show." When Samantha Womack decided to leave, Kirkwood put about the meme that she was "taking a break."
Fact: Samantha Womack decided not to renew her contract with the programme. That means, peeps, that she left. She's gone. Whether or not she returns isn't entirely up to her, but to the executive producer of the day. For all intents and purposes, Ronnie is toast as a character.
These days, a lot of businesses hire people by contract law - usually giving the employee a year's contract. At the end of that specified period of time, the employer may offer an extension to that contract of another year. If the employee okays that, all well and good. But if they don't, they work until the end of the contract and then they're gone.
That's the way the sports and entertainment industry have always worked. And if a person decides not to renew a contract offered to them, it doesn't mean that they want to take a break, it means they want to leave.
That is entirely different from maternity leave or even a sabbatical. Women are entitled to six months' maternity leave with pay. Any additional time taken for maternity leave - a year, for example - is taken without pay.
Sabbaticals are agreed periods of time away from work, without pay, when the employee will return afterward.
Now, back to Letitia Dean's "break" in 2006. John Yorke subsequently admitted that TPTB lied about that. They put out the meme that she was "taking a break" because so many big names had left the programme that year. It was to quell the tabloid media causing mass panic pandemonium amongst the show's viewers.
Bryan Kirkwood chose to describe Womack's departure as "a break" due to all the adverse publicity surrounding the babyswap storyline, including leaks that the storyline, itself, induced Womack to realise that she'd had enough of the trauma of being the resident tragedy queen and wanted to get on with her own life.
Now here's the latest fact:
Jo Joyner decided not NOT to renew her contract.
That was what was initially reported, and that is the truth. That means, sometime in 2013, Jo Joyner will leave. Her initial premise was that she wanted to spend time with her two toddlers, after her husband has had househusband duties since the children were infants.
Once again, Eastenders was in a bind when that announcement came out. Coming off the back of Kirkwood's tenure, which saw a lot of big characters simply "vanish" (many under a tissue of lies) as well as several A-listers suddenly having "breaks" from filming, the fact that Joyner was leaving may have been too dicey a titbit to throw a ravenous tabloid media. So, the myth that she was "taking a break" was devised.
The actress then was put on a PR stump, promising viewers that she would be back and that she was only "taking a break." Some people surmised that her "break" would be a year; others were adamant that it was six months. Joyner's latest interview seems to confuse the issue a lot more, whingeing about wanting to have taken a year off for her twins but only taking the requisite six months.
Pardon me, but she's talking bullshit.
Fact: The actress has decided not to renew her contract. That means when her contract runs out, she is out of employment with the BBC. She can work for ITV or make commercials or sit at home and twiddle her thumbs if she wants to.
Fact: After returning from maternity leave, Joyner and her husband bought a house closer to Elstree in order to facilitate things for her getting to work. Now, it seems they've bought a house and are relocating to the country for their children's sake.
Fact: In Joyner's original interview, she stated that her husband had been at home with the twins for two years and now wanted to return to work. She felt she wanted time at home with her children.
Fact: When an actor agrees not to renew a contract, his time on the show is up. There is no "special arrangement" made whereby he or she might return unless the time they've been granted away is defined as a SABBATICAL. Nowhere has any reference been made to Jo Joyner taking a sabbatical. So all of the numptie Luddites who are reckoning on her having reached some sort of negotiation with Lorraine Newman to return are starting to resemble Fallen Piano with his head up his arse. That can't be done.
Fact: Whether and when she returns at all is down to whichever Executive Producer is on hand whenever THEY decide they want her back.
What's being done now is a slick con job on the viewing public, an exercise to keep the tabloids from further speculation about a crisis on the programme and also to keep the collective braincell shared by the lowest common denominator of viewer from imploding.#
Jo Joyner is leaving. Tanya will go. She may not return.
Suck it up.
And ...
The entertainment industry is one of illusion. As hard as it may be for some people to realise this, Eastenders is just an illusion. It's a bunch of journeymen actors playing people who don't exist. Sometimes, for public relations' necessities, the realm of fantasy is brought into reality, and this is done for a purpose.
What normal people would call lying is done all the time in the world of sports, entertainment and politics. How many times have you heard a football chairman say that a struggling manager has his vote of confidence only to have the man sacked within a few days of repeating this lie?
I'm cynical enough and realistic enough to realise when someone on television is trying to sell me a bill of goods (google that if you don't know what it is), and I can even understand why it's done in this day and age; what never ceases to amaze me is how stupid the general public really is - especially in relation to Eastenders.
With that in mind, they really must be aiming their programmes and their PR at the feet of the lowest common denominator.
Consider this: 2005 was a seminally bad year for Eastenders. Kathleen Hutchison, who started the year as EP, sacked Leslie Grantham and totally ended Dirty Den once and for all by definitely killing him. Several other A-List characters also chose to leave that year - namely Chrissie Watts, Sam Mitchell, the big guns of the year Alfie and Kat and the bigger gun Dennis Rickman. Letitia Dean, who played Sharon, called it a day as well. She was the last to leave and at a time when the soap was being universally slated - even more so or at least as much as it's being slated today.
Dean was the last to leave. She actually left the soap at the end of 2004, when she winged off to the US in a huff, only to return briefly for Grantham's last episode; however, she was convinced to return for the despatch of Chrissie and for the departure of Nigel Harman's Dennis.
When she left the soap finally, on 13th January 2006, it was announced by the show's PR department that Letitia Dean was not leaving Eastenders; in fact, she was "taking a break."
Well, we know now that that break lasted six years. Recently, "taking a break" has become a euphemism, especially under Kirkwood's reign of terror, for "leaving the show." When Samantha Womack decided to leave, Kirkwood put about the meme that she was "taking a break."
Fact: Samantha Womack decided not to renew her contract with the programme. That means, peeps, that she left. She's gone. Whether or not she returns isn't entirely up to her, but to the executive producer of the day. For all intents and purposes, Ronnie is toast as a character.
These days, a lot of businesses hire people by contract law - usually giving the employee a year's contract. At the end of that specified period of time, the employer may offer an extension to that contract of another year. If the employee okays that, all well and good. But if they don't, they work until the end of the contract and then they're gone.
That's the way the sports and entertainment industry have always worked. And if a person decides not to renew a contract offered to them, it doesn't mean that they want to take a break, it means they want to leave.
That is entirely different from maternity leave or even a sabbatical. Women are entitled to six months' maternity leave with pay. Any additional time taken for maternity leave - a year, for example - is taken without pay.
Sabbaticals are agreed periods of time away from work, without pay, when the employee will return afterward.
Now, back to Letitia Dean's "break" in 2006. John Yorke subsequently admitted that TPTB lied about that. They put out the meme that she was "taking a break" because so many big names had left the programme that year. It was to quell the tabloid media causing mass panic pandemonium amongst the show's viewers.
Bryan Kirkwood chose to describe Womack's departure as "a break" due to all the adverse publicity surrounding the babyswap storyline, including leaks that the storyline, itself, induced Womack to realise that she'd had enough of the trauma of being the resident tragedy queen and wanted to get on with her own life.
Now here's the latest fact:
Jo Joyner decided not NOT to renew her contract.
That was what was initially reported, and that is the truth. That means, sometime in 2013, Jo Joyner will leave. Her initial premise was that she wanted to spend time with her two toddlers, after her husband has had househusband duties since the children were infants.
Once again, Eastenders was in a bind when that announcement came out. Coming off the back of Kirkwood's tenure, which saw a lot of big characters simply "vanish" (many under a tissue of lies) as well as several A-listers suddenly having "breaks" from filming, the fact that Joyner was leaving may have been too dicey a titbit to throw a ravenous tabloid media. So, the myth that she was "taking a break" was devised.
The actress then was put on a PR stump, promising viewers that she would be back and that she was only "taking a break." Some people surmised that her "break" would be a year; others were adamant that it was six months. Joyner's latest interview seems to confuse the issue a lot more, whingeing about wanting to have taken a year off for her twins but only taking the requisite six months.
Pardon me, but she's talking bullshit.
Fact: The actress has decided not to renew her contract. That means when her contract runs out, she is out of employment with the BBC. She can work for ITV or make commercials or sit at home and twiddle her thumbs if she wants to.
Fact: After returning from maternity leave, Joyner and her husband bought a house closer to Elstree in order to facilitate things for her getting to work. Now, it seems they've bought a house and are relocating to the country for their children's sake.
Fact: In Joyner's original interview, she stated that her husband had been at home with the twins for two years and now wanted to return to work. She felt she wanted time at home with her children.
Fact: When an actor agrees not to renew a contract, his time on the show is up. There is no "special arrangement" made whereby he or she might return unless the time they've been granted away is defined as a SABBATICAL. Nowhere has any reference been made to Jo Joyner taking a sabbatical. So all of the numptie Luddites who are reckoning on her having reached some sort of negotiation with Lorraine Newman to return are starting to resemble Fallen Piano with his head up his arse. That can't be done.
Fact: Whether and when she returns at all is down to whichever Executive Producer is on hand whenever THEY decide they want her back.
What's being done now is a slick con job on the viewing public, an exercise to keep the tabloids from further speculation about a crisis on the programme and also to keep the collective braincell shared by the lowest common denominator of viewer from imploding.#
Jo Joyner is leaving. Tanya will go. She may not return.
Suck it up.
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